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it was a bit of Sciiyus paucifloriis, so exactly like it, that a careful 

 examination alone shewed that they were so totally different in 

 their true characters. The Tayinloan specimen fastened down on 

 your sheet is S. pauciflwus, and is there named *S^. multicaulis. Are 

 you sure that you have no other specimens from that place ? Let 

 the Botanical Society Herbarium also be examined to see for 

 specimens or duplicates from that district. Probably you have 

 preserved your Journal of that excursion, and might by looking 

 into it, find out the place, near Tayinloan, where you gathered the 

 plant then called E. multicaulis. Do take some opportunity of doing 

 so, and inform me. I enclose a copy of the character which I have 

 drawn up for the new Eleocharis, and shall probably enclose a paper 

 upon the subject in your parcel when it is returned to you. It may 

 however be a few weeks before I do this, as I should like to learn 

 any further information that you may be able to obtain (as is above 

 suggested) before doing so. I also hope that I may be able to add 

 a few specimens to the packet which may be acceptable to you, as. 

 I am upon the point of forming several sets of specimens to go to 

 the continent. I wish that you had thought to put the printed 

 specimen of F. fennica into the parcel, but shall look forward still 

 to obtaining it at a future time. I am told by Stratton that 

 Henslow writes him information incidentally, that he is preparing 

 a new edition of his "Descriptive and Physiological Botany" for 

 Longmans. I am curious to see what he will make of it, as I 

 presume that Longmans will not wish the book to be made any 

 longer than it now is. He hopes to have it ready, Stratton tells 

 me, by May. When is your book to be published 1 [Unfinished]. 



To William Borrer, Esq. 



St. John's College, Cambridge, Mar. 10, 1852. 



My dear Sir, — I have lately felt just as you tell me that it has 

 been with you, namely, that it is indeed long since I have had a 

 line from you. Although you say nothing about it, I hope that I 

 may conclude that you are in good health, and that Mrs. Borrer is 

 in the same state. I did not make any discoveries last summer, or 

 you would have heard of them ; nor did I obtain any specimens 

 that seemed likely to be of much interest to you, or I should have 

 sent them. I spent some weeks in Pembrokeshire, making a list 

 of the plants of the southern half of that county. That I have 

 sent to Mr. Watson for the 3rd volume of his " Cybele," now in 

 the press. I have also drawn up a sketch of the distribution of 

 the Eubi for the same volume. It has given me much pleasure 

 to find that most of the forms or so-called species of that very 

 intricate genus are now known to grow in very many parts of the 

 country. I will see Mr. Stratton, the Curator of our Garden, 

 immediately, and tell him to send a root of Eubus Leesii to you, as 

 you desire. The plant has grown beautifully in our loose, gravelly, 



